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Fashion Fail: Three Demons and a Cultivator Loose in the Modern World

A scum villain crack au

  • It all starts when Shen Qingqiu and Shang Qinghua collapse without any warning, appearing to be dead, (but still breathing)
  • Naturally Binghe is freaking the Hell out, as is all of Cang Qiong
  • But the dream demon interupts, revealing that something has taken their souls away to what appears to be another world, sincw he can’t access it
  • That’s all Binghe needs to start slashing holes through the universe (after stealing Xin Mo from the other Binghe)
  • With him he takes Mobei-jun, Sha Hauling, and Liu Qingge, who wasn’t invited but refused to be left behind
  • Eventually they find the right world, but its a strange one, where people live in moutains of steel and glass, and wear scandalously little clothing.
  • Liu Qingge looks as if he’s about to pass out when hr sees his first skinny jeans
  • Naturally three handsome men and a beautiful woman in cosplay is attracting a lot of attention. Too much in fact, and the requests for photos and autographs is starting to impeed the speed of their quest
  • So binghe makes the call for everyone to blend in, taking them to the first merchant shop he sees with clothing inside
  • Its a second hand store, with all sorts of options everywhere at cheep prices, because Binghe’s luck is just that good
  • Binghe chooses his clothing carefully. He listens to the female workers giggling about which outfit they’d want to buy if they could, and buys that, confident he’s picked an Outfit that will give him respect
  • Its a vivid red Prom Dress, floorlength skirt with a slit over one leg, off the shoulder straps. Binghe loves it. He looks beautiful.
  • Mobei-jun doesn’t care what he wears so he just grabs the first things he thinks he can put on
  • These end up being hot pink sweatpants and a real fur coat, plus crocks on his feet. He looks ridiculous, but he’s also huge and scary, so no one is gonna say it
  • Sha Hualing is having a great time. This worlds cultural clothing styles were made for her!
  • She ends up in a bikini with bright pink flamingos on it, plus a neon green feathery boa she drapes over herself like her old silks
  • Liu Qingge refuses to change. He’s not dressing in these absurd clothing styles, no matter how much Binghe insists it will help them blend in.
  • Fortunately it doesn’t matter, standing next to four people in equally good cosplay he mught look like an actor, but standing next to three weirdos he looks just as weird
  • The final touch is the three matching ducky hats on the three demons. Demon marks need to be disguised after all, but shifting is hard to do in this strange world, or any of their powers really
  • So ducky hats. It kinda works on mobei-jun (aka its so weird it fits) but it absolutely ruins Binghe’s gorgeous dress affect, and Sha hualing’s weird beach athestic
  • Now everyone is staring at the four of them for a very different reason, but at least they aren’t coming up to talk to them
  • What’s more, it’s because of their strange clothing they manage to find Shang Qinghua and Shen Qingqiu, who are both stuck in the hospital
  • Binghe and friends were given instruction to go there by some teenagers messing with them
  • Jokes on thrm, because while they were walking up a loud voice screams “my king?!!!”
  • Mobei’s head whips around so fast it gives him whiplash, but he doesn’t care. All he cares about is the small stranger shrieking at him from a high window, waving his arms excitedly and chattering like mobei’s beloved right hand
  • And beside him is a man who looks very like Shen Qingqiu’s plant body, Shen yuan
  • It takes a little while to get to then, shang Qinghua and Shen yuan can’t just leave the hospital intensive care ward, and the receptionist takes one look at four weirdly dressed people demanding she “release your captives” and calls security
  • It takes three break in attempts, a wheelchair, a seduction attempt (curtesy of sha hualing) and liu qingge fighting a vending machine with a real sword for them to be able to reunite with shen yuan and shang qinghua
  • Liu qingge takes one look at the paper hospital gowns and promptly faints
  • And there are many things to say, even more things to explain, like transmidiagation and the doctors trying to convince him it was all a dream, but the only thing that comes out of Shen Yuan’s mouth is: What the hell are you wearing?
  • Binghe, who up until that moment had been feeling confident, bursts into tears
  • it takes 30 minutes to get binghe to stop crying, to assure him shen yuan still loves him, he does look good, better than liu qingge - hey! Goes liu qingge in between faintings- and have shen Yuan internally confront and conquer his many bigotted views on gender and style in the name of reassuring his husband
  • Meanwhile mobei glares at shang qinghua, silently demanding compliments for dressing up
  • Shang qinghua: …that’s what you’re wearing my king? (Mobei glare increases) it looks…unique
  • “Good” mobei says, pulling out a matching set and shoving them on shang qinghua “match”
  • Binghe promptly pulls out another prom dress, this one a lovely green with a short skirt to show off his shizun’s beautiful legs
  • And thus shang qinghua and shen yuan are smuggled out of thr hospital in a pack if weirdly clothed friends, looking so wierd that no one questions them
  • And the all go home
  • But binghe keeps the dresses. He has…plans…for them
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alethiometry

laenor sending rhaenyra postcards from essos like "dear bestie, today qarl and i drank sangria and had a couples' massage. hope the civil war is going well! remember to tell the boys to eat their vegetables xoxo"

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animentality

It's so fucking unfair that Daniel Radcliffe, Elijah Wood, and Robert Pattinson have never been in a movie together where they all play the part of dirty little gremlin man that must go on a grand quest of some kind in which they spent the entire film arguing, lighting each other on fire, inexplicably dressing in drag to sneak into locations that welcome both men and women, and singing old sea shanties.

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I wanna talk about Mo Ran and Choice (or lack there of) in 2Ha

I was rereading and came across that scene in Farm Arc where Ling’er asks what does Mo Ran like and he was so taken aback by the realization that this is the first time someone has asked what he likes or wants. Meatbun then goes on to say how since he was a very poor child, he didn’t have the luxury of choice. This is understandable and adds tragedy to already tragic character, a needed element in a redemption arc like his.

But what actually made me lose what last drops of serotonin I had was when I realized how this pertains to the previous lifetime and The Flower. Also how it shows that Taxian Jun’s tragedy also revolves around not having a choice.

What The Flower does is essentially amplifying whatever hatred or negative feelings he has, making it worse as it goes. In an ordinary scenario a normal person would have a choice between ignoring / suppressing or even resolving that anger but the Flower takes those choices away and distorts his perception of things.

Mo Ran of 0.5 timeline was robbed of the right of choosing what he could or could not feel and in extension, express.

the Flower is taking away his ability at controlling or resolving his feelings and directly influencing thoughts that otherwise wouldn’t even have occurred in the first place. 

Mo zongshi grew from a choiceless child to a man who could decide for his own self both in terms of free will and resources. But Taxian Jun grew from that poor child to a man stripped of even the ability to experience his own feelings and think his own thoughts. And to make it worse, the last unaffected decision he took, his final choice made of free will, was to take the Flower, essentially signing away his mind, in place of Chu Wanning. And his final coherent thought was, “I’m going to disappoint you shizun.”

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But to kiss and be kissed. To be wanted. That’s a different thing from love. And maybe, maybe if she tried, they could have something. Not everything, but something.

— One Last Stop (pg. 210)

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Hands shaking, August pulls her phone out. “I didn’t save you. You’re saving yourself.” Jane nods. “I’ve figured out you can’t do that alone.
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